Stormy weather begins and ends the day

Updated 10:39 pm, Friday, May 10, 2013

Vehicles travel on East Mulberry after morning rain in San Antonio on Friday, May 10, 2013.

Vehicles travel on East Mulberry after morning rain in San Antonio on Friday, May 10, 2013.

Photo: Billy Calzada, San Antonio Express-News

Stormy weather begins and ends the day

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Stormy weather downed trees, contributed to minor traffic accidents and caused the cancelation of playoff baseball and softball games across the San Antonio area Friday evening, and there's a chance showers will continue into the early morning Saturday, Election Day.

Also, “We're going to need to investigate it further, but we did receive reports of tornadoes in the area,” said Monte Oaks, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “Most in the area roughly around LaCoste ... and southwestern Bexar County.”

Oaks said the reports hadn't been confirmed and there were no major damage reports associated with the sightings.

At the storm's height, about 1,200 CPS customers were without power, mostly in the Somerset area on the Far Southwest Side, said utility spokesman John Moreno.

“We have crews out there trying to identify what caused the outage,” he said, adding CPS hoped to have power restored to most of those customers by about 10 p.m.

Storms in the morning caused a larger outage as about 10,340 customers lost power, mostly along U.S. 90 on the West Side and along U.S. 37 just south of downtown.

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Hail was reported across the area, with Pearsall getting tennis ball-sized hail, and baseball sized-hail reported about three miles north of Pearsall.

“We've gotten pretty heavy damage reports in the Pearsall area of the hail damaging homes and cars,” Oaks said. “It was part of the strongest storm in the area that moved across southwest Medina and southern Atascosa” counties.

Bexar was among 23 South Central Texas counties under a severe thunderstorm watch until 10 p.m.

Severe weather also caused the University Interscholastic League state track meet in Austin to be delayed twice — once after lightning and rain around 8 a.m., and again in the evening when the second line of storms moved through.

Chances for rain continue through Saturday morning, maxing out at 30 percent. Otherwise, Election Day should be cloudy, with temperatures between 81 and 60 degrees.

“There's a good chance of rain before daybreak, but after that the chances will continue to diminish,” Oaks said.